How to Use backswing in a Sentence

backswing

noun

• But as the amplitude increases, the optimal timing shifts to favor leaning back earlier, when the swinger is at the highest point in her backswing.
  — Bykatie McCormick, science.org, 7 Apr. 2023
• In the past week, Vogt was struck in the head by a backswing and was hit by three foul tips and two balls in the dirt.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2020
• Wynns took a backswing to the head in the fourth and was examined by a trainer but stayed in.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 June 2022
• What about getting hit by the bat in a backswing or follow-through?
  — Josh Dean, Esquire, 18 May 2015
• Both foul tips and backswings have effects that can linger.
  — Matthew Gutierrez, courant.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• Allen started Saturday’s game against the Angels and took a backswing to the right side of his head.
  — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• To execute that shot, your backswing and follow-through must be the same length.
  — Joe Didonato, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• That seems to be something that's grown the last couple years, getting hit by backswings.
  — Josh Dean, Esquire, 18 May 2015
• The backswing involves rotation in the lower back, pelvis and hip joints.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 16 June 2022
• While receiving his first pitch of the spring, he got clipped in the back of the helmet by Gorkys Hernandez’s backswing.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2017
• Austin Allen, who started behind the plate Tuesday, took a Cabrera backswing to the side of his head early but stayed in the game.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2021
• But on Donaldson's backswing, the bat slipped out of his hands, and the flying wood conked plate umpire Chris Segal in the head.
  — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 18 July 2017
• His signature position comes at the top of the backswing.
  — Luke Kerr-Dineen, USA TODAY, 8 May 2017
• Golf fans have one job: Don’t scream like a moron during a player’s backswing.
  — Steven Ruiz, For The Win, 28 Jan. 2018
• Golfers coil their bodies during the backswing to follow through after the point of impact.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2021
• Mannarino has a very nice game for grass—a lefty who requires little backswing, stays low to the ground and moves well.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 19 June 2019
• My speedy strokes had caused me to spray the ball all over the course until the app coached me into grasping that the ideal ratio of backswing time to downswing time was 3:1.
  — David Pierce, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
• To get the ball there, Woods would have to avoid getting his backswing clipped by the branch behind him, then hit a low, searing, looping shot that, with the help of the downslope, could roll to the mouth of the green.
  — Brian Costa, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
• Castillo was winged by a backswing from A's Khris Davis with two outs in the first inning Monday but stayed in game after being checked out.
  — John Hickey, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Whether your mom picked up her first racket this spring or 20 springs ago, there’s nothing like a new ensemble to put some pep in her backswing.
  — Sara Bosworth, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2021
• Experts have faulted him for his backswing and the angle of his shoulder and elbow, but say that’s all corrected by the time the clubface hits the ball.
  — Stephanie Gosk, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2017
• Fellow Nationals backstop Yan Gomes ducks his head to avoid getting hit on a backswing.
  — Matthew Gutierrez, The Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2019
• Taking a backswing was like hauling her racket through honey.
  — Melody Chiu, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2019
• Rahm is a different kind of power player who employs a remarkably short and quick backswing.
  — Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
• Gudel had posted a video to her Twitter account of a session at the golf range Sunday in which Kemm is seen drawing through her backswing with just one arm, her right, and piping a shot straight down the fairway.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 30 July 2020
• They are struck by foul balls, hit with bats during backswings and — even with rule changes to lessen the chances of home plate collisions — occasionally run over by large men sprinting at full speed.
  — Josh Dean, Esquire, 24 May 2015
• On television, anchors used slow-motion video to analyze and fawn over Charlie’s backswing, his follow-through, his hip turn.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2021
• And if protesters make noise during players’ backswings?
  — Ben Nuckols, The Seattle Times, 24 May 2017
• President Trump, who angered millions last week with his profane reference to Africa and Haiti, might do better to save his salty expressions for his backswing.
  — Rita Giordano, Philly.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• But Fernandez, with her lack of a backswing, incredible hand-eye coördination, and her insouciance, held her ground.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Nov 2024